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01 Sep 2003
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HBS June 2–3, 2004 Spring 2004 Reunions/MBA Classes of 1929, 1934, 1939, 1944, 1949, 1954, 1984, 1989, 1994, 1999 HBS June 3–6, 2004 HBS Global Leadership Forums “From the Commanding Heights to the Market: The Changing Face of Business” Shanghai, View Details

01 Dec 2010
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Iron Lady

second largest in sub-Saharan Africa but far smaller than South Africa’s) and then declared that she would bring charges against some 200 other individuals and organizations allegedly involved View Details

Keywords: Finance

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Christopher Maloney

wherever I go-I just need to work to find it. Nonetheless, embracing that realization may take a lifetime. I work primarily on African development issues. My affinity for Africa started in high school,... View Details

01 Sep 2011
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HBS Cases: KFC’s Explosive Growth in China In China, Yum! Brands is opening a KFC store every day. But this is not the KFC known in America. A... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

26 Feb 2020
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Alumni-Led Biotech Developing Vaccine to Combat Coronavirus

prominent local scientists and biotech leaders—Bancel included—met this week at Harvard Medical School to brainstorm new approaches. That meeting is part of a recently announced $115 million collaboration between scientists at Harvard Medical School and their... View Details

15 Oct 2019
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Innovative Thinking Fuels Nascent Startup Scene

Amira Rashad (MBA 1998) Amira Rashad (MBA 1998) When Amira Rashad (MBA 1998) cofounded the grocery delivery platform BulkWhiz in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in spring 2017, she joined a nascent startup... View Details

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Who Gets that Opportunity Right Out of Business School | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

manager recommended that she read an HBS case study about how the Sesame Workshop CEO, Jeff Dunn... An Emerging Entrepreneur Patricio Bichara 2015 Patricio “Pato” Bichara (MBA 2015) learned something important in the summer between his... View Details

06 Dec 2021
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What's the Word?

this “poisonous chicken soup,” as Chinese officials call it? The number of college graduates in China has increased immensely over the past three decades, from 2 million in... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustrations by Martha Rich; Manufacturing; Finance; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

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Jay Khil

A childhood in the United States, an adolescence in South Korea, a semester abroad in China, and a career launch in Dearborn, Michigan – by any... View Details

21 Sep 2015
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Funding Progress Back Home

estimates indicate that global diaspora remittances amount to $550 billion a year. Homestrings investors choose from among funds or projects in Africa selected because they meet economic, social, and good... View Details

04 May 2010
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First Look: May 4

reformulated in light of the new data, methodology, and findings presented in this study. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-072.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsReal Blue? Viagra and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Asia Pacific - Global Activities 2020

Asia Pacific Spanning China and Southeast Asia to Indonesia and Japan, the School’s Asia-Pacific research outposts further faculty scholarship, support MBA and Executive Education programming, and develop opportunities for local alumni to... View Details

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Cissy Chen Archives | Social Enterprise

Curriculum Social Enterprise Student Club Social Entrepreneurship Summer Fellows Technology for Good Transformative Impact Tri-Sector Impact 1 Results Building an Impact Investing Ecosystem in China Cissy... View Details

June 2002 (Revised August 2002)
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WorldSpace: Digital Radio for the Developing World

By: Debora L. Spar

Describes the evolution of WorldSpace, the world's first major provider of digital radio service to the developing world. The brainchild of Noah Samara, an African-born, American-trained lawyer, WorldSpace has a dual commercial and social mission. Samara wants to... View Details

Keywords: Information; Social Entrepreneurship; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Developing Countries and Economies; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Asia; Latin America; Africa

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Dean LeBaron | Baker Library

manage investment portfolios. Dean was also in the vanguard in Latin America, the former Soviet Union, and China when investment opportunities opened there. He talked about his... View Details

29 Mar 2016
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March 29, 2016

2016 Boston: Cengage Learning Management: An Integrated Approach By: Gulati, Ranjay, Anthony Mayo, and Nitin Nohria Abstract—The goal of Management: An Integrated Approach, 2nd ed., is to prepare students for leadership positions in 21st... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Michelle Giguere

interesting, but interested. When you have so many people coming together with so many different experiences, you learn as much from your classmates as you do from the content of the cases themselves." Reaffirming her direction In... View Details

03 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 3, 2009

http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=409022 Kibera and the Kenya Slum Upgrading Project (A) Harvard Business School Case 207-017 tKenya's Minister of Housing faces tremendous pressures in... View Details